Quotes About Ambivalence

I hated my job, but I liked that I could do it

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

There are things in life which one cannot well defend, although one may have the greatest wish to do so.

Going back to Walter's house had been like visiting a cemetery where there were no tidy tombstones recording beginnings and endings but only question marks over the graves.

Hiç önemsemiyormu? gibi gözüküp, deliler gibi önemsiyordum. bu da benim ikilemimdi.

she felt about men the way she felt about pistachio nuts: she did not mind to have them around, but she did not go out of her way to find them, and she did not miss them when they were gone. Poor Vincent, I thought

They were walking along a roadway of great slabs of stone set down one after another, the beginning and end of which they could take in at a glance, a road rising from and heading toward nowhere now. "You can't get there from here," William said, using a Down East accent. "Anymore." Maine, they thought of Maine, then. Evidently this truncated road could still carry them as far away and as long ago as that.

My tidyness and untidyness are full of complicated feelings of regret and sadness.

In a romantic comedy, I would have been able to wipe all his troubles away with a single kiss. But that wasn't going to happen—not the kiss, not the troubles vanishing with it. I felt so close to him, but I didn't want to kiss him. And I didn't get the sense that he wanted to kiss me.

I wanted people to notice me...but at the same time, I wanted to be left alone.

WAITRESS 1 Actually, the last thing I want is to be alone, but . . . the other last thing is to be with someone.

But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was all silly invention on her part. Yet she could not. Not quite.

Sometimes you feel so happy, it feels almost the same as sadness.

She rolls onto her back and looks up at the dark ceiling, at the tiny speck of orange light leaking through the curtains from the streetlamp outside, and she tries to decide. "Are

It didn't feel good, but on the other hand, it felt just right.

Mozart experienced the fundamental ambivalence of the bourgeois artist in court society, which can be summed up by the following dichotomy: identification with the court nobility and its taste; resentment of his humiliation by it.

Most revolutionaries neither exactly know--nor knew--what they want: Form or Unform.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynamak istiyor insan, bir yandan da k?l?na zarar gelsin istemiyor. Küçük oyunlar istemiyorum albay?m.

Hüsamettin Albay?m! Hamlet ya?asayd? ?imdi tümgeneral olmu?tu, de?il mi?

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

I think we all feel great ambivalence at the sight of our own Horoscope. On the one hand we're proud to see that the sky is imprinted on our individual life, like a postmark with a date stamped on a letter – this makes it distinct, one of a kind. But at the same time it's a form of imprisonment in space, like a tattooed prison number. There's no escaping it. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.

Je pensais : « Ce n'est que pour m'amuser, je ne le prends que comme partenaire de plaisirs. » D'ordinaire, je le méprisais ; quelquefois je me sentais honteux de me promener dans sa compagnie. Pourtant, c'est par cet homme que me vie fut brisée.

No sentía ni entusiamo ni aversión por lo que hacía. Mi letargo era tal, que simplemente me dejaba llevar por lo que consideraban mejor para mí quienes me rodeaban.